HRANA News Agency – Behruz Alkhani, political prisoner, was executed in Uremia prison and the authorities do not deliver his body to his family.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Behruz Alkhani has been executed today morning in the prison of Uremia. Although the family has already arrived to the prison but the authorities refuse to deliver them the body. Continue reading “Behruz Alkhani Executed in Prison of Uremia”
HRANA News Agency – The following pictures are taken from Behruz Alkhani’s court sentence. He has been transferred to solitary confinement to be executed and had the last visit with his family already.
In the lack of transparency of Iranian judiciary, HRANA publsihed the court sentence to make the situation clearer. According to this sentence, despite accepting some charges under pressure, Behruz Alkhani has been denying the charge of murdering Khoy’s prosecutor and has stated that the act of terror was done before he would be active. Continue reading “HRANA Published Full Text of Behruz Alkhani’s Court Sentence”
Behrouz Alkhani, a 30-year-old man from Iran’s Kurdish minority has been transferred out of Oroumieh prison’s general ward and placed in solitary confinement in preparation for his execution tomorrow, despite the fact that he’s still awaiting the outcome of a Supreme Court appeal, said Amnesty International.
“The Iranian authorities must urgently halt Behrouz Alkhani’s execution. Carrying out a death sentence while a prisoner is awaiting the outcome of his appeal is a serious violation of both Iranian and international law, and is an affront to justice,” said Said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Amnesty International. Continue reading “Halt Execution of Kurdish Man due to be Carried Out Tomorrow Morning”
HRANA News Agency – Behruz Alkhani, death row political prisoner has been transferred to the solitary confinements of Uremia Prison in order to be executed.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Behruz Alkhani has been transferred to the solitary confinement this morning and his family has been called for the last visit. Continue reading “A Kurdish Political Prisoner Scheduled to Be Executed in Uremia Prison”
HRANA News Agency – Hossein Bozorgnejad, prisoner who was sentenced to death on charges of drug trafficking, was hanged in Isfahan prison.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), the death sentence against Hossein Bozorgnejad, 27, native of Shiraz, was executed in Isfahan prison on Sunday 9th August. Continue reading “A Prisoner Hanged in the Prison of Isfahan”
HRANA News Agency – Sirvan Nazhavi, political prisoner, was hanged in the prison of Tabriz.
Hossein Nazhavi, Sirvan Nazhavi’s brother, after announcing this news in an interview with HRANA’s reporter said that during a contact by the prison authorities they had been asked to collect his brother’s body from Tabriz prison, on Sunday afternoon 8th August. Continue reading “Sirvan Nazhavi, Kurdish Political Prisoner Executed in Tabriz Prison”
HRANA News Agency – Hossein Bozorgnejad is scheduled to be taken to the gallows in some hours.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Hossein Bozorgnejad has been sentenced to death on charge of drug trafficking and is scheduled to be executed today in Isfahan Prison. Continue reading “A Prisoner Scheduled to Be Executed Today in Isfahan”
HRANA News Agency – The following video footage shows a public lashing in Padadshahr in Ahwaz, on a prisoner who according to the loudspeaker on the ground was sentenced to 4 years in prison and 74 lashes on charge of theft, in branch number 15 of criminal court. The chief judge Gharooni is the executioner of the sentence. Continue reading “Video Footage of Public Lashing in Padadshahr in Ahwaz”
HRANA News Agency – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, yesterday urged the Iranian authorities to immediately commute the death penalty recently handed down to Mohammad Ali Tehari, a well-known author of alternative medical theories practiced in Iran and abroad, and founder ofErfan-e-Halgheh (Inter-Universalism), an arts and culture institute in Tehran which promoted healing concepts.
Mr. Taheri was reportedly sentenced to death on 1 August on charges of ‘Fisad-fil-Arz’ (‘Corruption on Earth’), while he was serving a five year sentence. He was arrested in May 2011 and sentenced to five years in prison for insulting Islamic sanctities. Continue reading “UN Expert Calls for an Immediate Moratorium after Iran Hands Down Death Penalty to a Prisoner of Conscience”
HRANA News Agency – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein today expressed alarm at the imposition of the death penalty on Mohammad Ali Taheri, the founder of a spiritual movement, writer and practitioner of alternative medicine theories used in Iran and abroad. Taheri was sentenced to death on Saturday by the Revolutionary Court on a charge of Fesad fel Arz (corruption on earth).
“Iran’s use of the death penalty has long been problematic, with many executions on drug offences, several executions of people who were below the age of 18 when the crime was committed, as well as other cases where broad, ill-defined charges led to the imposition of capital punishment,” Zeid said. Continue reading “Death Sentence on Alternative Health Practitioner Highlights Alarming Use of Capital Punishment in Iran”
